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Apr 22, 2024 · A resort employee found their bodies but Routh had reportedly fled the scene after the shootings. According to Fox 13, Kyle’s wife, Taya, later claimed that he and Littlefield spent time with ...
Feb 11, 2015 · February 11, 2015, 8:12 AM. 2:20. Eddie Ray Routh is pictured in court on Feb. 11, 2015. WTVD. -- Eddie Ray Routh drank whiskey and used 'wet' marijuana before killing "American Sniper" Chris Kyle ...
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Reader discretion is advised. America’s deadliest sniper Chris Kyle’s killer, Eddie Ray Routh, went to the Texas gun range with Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield on February 2, 2013. Fox 13 ...
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Kyle served four tours in Iraq, participating in every major American campaign there -- the 2003 invasion, Fallujah in 2004, Ramadi in 2006 and Sadr City in 2008. He wasn't always watching over Marinesand SEALs like an avenging angel. Stories abound about Kyle going house-to-house on the streets with Marines, whom he dubbed "my boys." Those house r...
In the years since his death, Kyle has been accused of inflating the number of medals he earned, noting in his book, "American Sniper," that he had two Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars with "V" devices. Kyle wrote these numbers in his book, because that's what was on his DD-214, the form every service member receives when they leave the military....
In "American Sniper," Kyle claimed to have punched out a former Navy SEAL he described as "a celebrity I'll call 'Scruff Face'" during a wake for fallen SEAL Michael Monsoor. Monsoor died throwing himself onto a grenade in Iraq. Back in California, the SEALs came together at a bar called McP's to remember him and hang out with "a few of the older S...
Decking Ventura isn't the only doubtful assertion Kyle ever made. He also claimed to have been sent to take out looters in New Orleansin the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, saying he shot 30 or so armed assailants. He also claimed to have shot and killed two would-be carjackers who tried to steal his truck at a Texas gas station in 2009. He said th...
What is definitely true about Kyle is that he cared deeply about fellow veterans. He would routinely take troubled vets out to shooting ranges. One of those troubled vets was former Marine Eddie Ray Routh. Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield took Routh to the Rough Creek Ranch-Lodge-Resort, a shooting range Kyle helped design, on Feb. 2, 2013. Whi...
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Feb 25, 2015 · Taya Kyle, wife of Chris Kyle, wipes away tears when viewing images of her husband during her testimony on the witness stand during the opening day of the trial in Stephenville, Texas February 11 ...
Feb 14, 2015 · Taya Kyle, wife of slain Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, cries on the witness stand during the opening day of the capital murder trial of former Marine Cpl. Eddie Ray Routh at the Erath County Donald R. Jones Justice Center on February 11, 2015 in Stephenville, Texas.
Feb 4, 2013 · A hunting guide discovered the bodies of Kyle and Littlefield around 5 p.m. and called 911. Routh allegedly left in Kyle's pickup and went to his sister's home in Midlothian. He told what he had ...
